Description acceptable

Description acceptable is a warning occasionally appended to the beginning of tossups or the end of bonus parts, to indicate that the desired answer may not have a proper name and/or that the answer line allows some leniency with giving a more common generic answer rather than the proper name of the thing being asked about. This represents an exception to the general principle that things have names.

The use of "Description acceptable" became more standard in collegiate circuit sets in the early 2010s [1].

Though some tossups at 2014 ICT had the label, NAQT has banned the use of "Description acceptable" in its question sets since 2014 [2].